Michael Bérubé has a long blog post that gives some insight into WBM, both from reading him and talking to him. It's very long, here's a taste:
<http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/visiting_native_speaker/>
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For me, the most extraordinary thing about this (by Internet standards) ancient blog thread is how closely it pre-echoes nearly all the sounds made here about WBM. Someone even posted a "fantasy of being outside of ideology"-like opinion.
This proves one of my early theories: I am in hell, doomed to live the same loop, argue the same arrangements, crunch the same crunch-berries, yank the same chains and flibber the same digibits over and over again till the sun burns out.
.d.